Saturday, August 11, 2012

Cityscape with Clouds

I'm trying to do a bunch of tiny abstract paintings to get back into the swing of things. Some (most) are kind of cruddy - but that's OK. That's part of the process and really I'm just playing and trying all kinds of different things.

But this one started taking an interesting shape and before I knew it, it started looking like a city to me. So I played up on it.

I added the clouds to the sky, then I thought they looked like blimbs, but now I'm back to clouds. (You can call them blimps if you want.) But now I'm kinda loving the idea of a sky full of blimps so I might have to do another one.

In other news: I went out and bought a USB cable mic yesterday and was able to record my voice over into the stop-motion book trailer via Garbageband. So that works much better. I'm even making a little "making of a book trailer" movie, so I'll show that to you when it's done. I'll probably try to keep the book trailer under wraps until March. Oh, I'll show you guys. But I won't put it on Facebook until closer to the book opening.